133 A Great Fright.

 

they were dull and stupid. Nobody
cared whether they played or not.
It seemed to make very little diffe-
rence,

Johnny, however, was always
wanted; but just now it was only
those children who had had the
whooping-cough, who were allowed
to play with him. The mothers of
the others were afraid lest their
children should get it; and so they
kept them away.

And thus it happened that some-
times when there was going to bea
great scrubbing of the floor, or a
great wash of the clothes, and Master
Johnny was so very active, that he
had to be turned outside to play,